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Lobster Issue 13 (1987) £££

Editorially First, most important, our thanks to those Lobster subscribers who responded to our appeal for money. Your response, and a bit of ‘consulting’ with Fleet St. on the content of Lobster 11, has halved our debts. We shall survive. It is tempting to say something about the developing crisis re the Wilson-MI5 story (Lobstergate?). […]

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The view from the bridge

Lobster Issue 32 (December 1996) £££

Who’s kidding whom? The September issue of Fortean Times carried a five page article by Robert Irving, ‘The Henry X File’, about Armen Victorian. It was a very strange article, part profile, part smear job. Armen was ‘twice reportedly seen in the back of a Soviet embassy limousine in Ottowa… rumours associated with the deadly […]

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Where’s Ware?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] London. Robin Ramsay Ware on Wallace I became aware of John Ware when he joined the side of the sceptics about Colin Wallace during the great Wallace-Wright- Wilson plots events of 1987. Ware had been one of the many journalists who went to interview Colin Wallace at his home in Arundel that year. Rather […]

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Hacks, pols and PR

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Lobster Issue 54 (Winter 2007/8) £££

The Triumph of the Political Class Peter Oborne London: Simon & Schuster, 2007, £18.99 Thinker, Faker, Spinner, Spy: Corporate PR and the Assault on Democracy Edited by William Dinan and David Miller London: Pluto, 2007, £15.99 End Times: The Death of the Fourth Estate Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St Clair CounterPunch and AK Press, Oakland […]

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Korkala, Terpil and Ireland

Lobster Issue 8 (1985) £££

According to the Dublin magazine Magill (August 1984), Frank Terpil was ‘kicked out’ of the CIA in 1972. He apparently admitted this while visiting Beirut in the autumn of 1980. He also claimed to have worked for the UN in New York and to have been Idi Amin’s advisor there. These ‘revelations’ were made at […]

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Late breaking news on Clay Shaw’s United Kingdom contacts

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] they sent him a telegram offering their support and sympathy – they could not believe he was guilty. Wickham-Boynton and Arroyo were friends of Lord MONTAGU. Angus Wilson (Tony Garrett) Felsham Woodside Bradfield St. George Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk Tel Rattlesden 200 This is Sir Angus Wilson, the distinguished novelist, who was born on […]

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Sources

Lobster Issue 30 (December 1995) £££

[…] me recently, Miller was conspicuous by his absence from Smear!– an oversight, nothing more interesting – though he does get a brief mention in Ben Pimlott’s Harold Wilson. Miller was one of those slightly rogueish, dodgy businessmen for whom Wilson had a penchant, and who ingratiated themselves with him by providing the Labour Party […]

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Nexus: postmodernism or what?

Lobster Issue 39 (Summer 2000) £££

[…] thing. Real, named, scientists and industrialists are interested. But on the down side there are more bizarre claims by a now dead, allegedly much decorated, USAF Colonel Wilson about MJ12 et al. This includes an account of Wilson meeting a 8 foot female alien wearing a crystal ring on her finger from which emanated […]

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The United States and the overthrow of Sukarno, 1965-67

Lobster Issue 20 (1990) £££

[…] 955. Southwood and Flanagan, p. 59. Crouch, p. 114. Declassified Documents Quarterly Catalogue, 1982, 002507 (Cable of April 15, 1965, from U.S. Delegation to U.N.). Cf. Forbes Wilson, The Conquest of Copper Mountain (New York: Atheneum, 1981), pp. 153-55. Declassifed Documents Quarterly Catalogue, 1982, 002507 (Cable of April 15, 1965, from U.S. Delegation to […]

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Denis Healey

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Lobster Issue 45 (Summer 2003) £££

[…] in his account they are just part of the picture. This is not the only area Pearce refuses to take on board. There is nothing on the Wilson plots and the fact that Healey’s wartime flirtation with communism loomed large in MI5’s disinformation strategy. The entire 1974-7 period of hysteria on the right, intense […]

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